Sony said there is Playstation Plus subscribers An additional service for five days To compensate for a large PS network failure that started on the night of February 7 and lasted about 20 hours until the following day.
Sony suffered a similar failure in October That took about 8 hours. The Company said in a post on x That the problem was technical.
“The network services have completely recovered from an operational problem. We apologize for the inconvenience and thank the community for their patience,” said the post office. “All PlayStation -Plus members automatically receive another five days of service.”
From February 10th, service seemed to be normal again. Sony did not immediately answer an e -mail about further information on the failure.
Players who own PlayStation 4 and PlayStation 5 consoles were among those affected, although every game or service for which a PlayStation network application is required also had problems. Last year Helldivers 2 -player protested Sony’s requirement that a PSN login is required to play the PC version of the game. Sony finally withdrew Removing the requirementsbut not before removed the game from the sale in several territories. Some gaming sites pointed out that Sony continued his PC games would not have been playable either
The latest failure concerned popular titles such as Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 and Marvel Rivals, but fans of online multiplayer games were not the only affected people. Console owners with digital copies of games instead of discs said they could not have their games verifiedEven play games to be inaccessible offline.
The last time PSN has been down for so long in 2011 When it turned out that a game failure was part of a big hacking incident.
